Dragon Age: Origins is an epic fantasy role-playing game featuring a rich story, personality-driven characters, and tactical, bloody combat. It is considered a spiritual successor to the Baldur's Gate series.

I prefer the superior dragonscale armor. Since I hardly ever party with Warriors, the heavy fatigue of the Blood Armor isn't really worth it. I like to put it on Ogren, because it looks slightly less stupid, if only because there's less of it to see.

@Teran: Does the set bonus vary by set? Or is it always a Defense bonus? Not that that isn't nice.

I'm wearing the Juggernaut armor from the Dalish woods myself, because of the resistances. I find that magic users inflict more damage on my warrior than anyone else, so I am really focused on my resistances.

@Vigilance: There are different set bonuses. If you right click on an item you can choose to examine it and there is usually a vague comment on what the set bonus might be.

Armor of the Legion is more of an offensive increase I believe.

If you're having trouble with casters I'd recommend choosing templar as a subclass and snagging some of the "knight commander" armor. The breastplate has 40% spell resistance built into it (but only templars can wear). Combine that with the spellward necklace and you've got 70%. A few other items and you can be sitting at 90%. I carried this set around in my first play through and put it on any time I went up against multiple mages. If you can't get the knight commander armor, templar armor is the next best at 20% spell resistance built into the breastplate.

Yah. Right now I just randomly placed the Dragon Blood Set on a character that I don't even use (Sten). My main uses Wade's Superior Dragonbone Plate, Alistair uses the Juggernaut set, and I have a spare set of armor no one is using at the moment, Armor of the Legion, which is arguably better.